VSR Or L96

[Snakeeyes75]

Pro Ball from Socom Tactical are good. Gunfire Rockets and BB King are also a couple I've tried and had no issues. Just avoid Nuprol.

As for weight, that's a personal decision really. The lighter the BB the faster it gets to your target but the quicker it'll shed its energy and the less inertia it can hold from the hop - so basically heavier weights go further but get there slower. I'd say start at above .30g (maybe with .36g for instance) then work your way up as high as above .40g if you're not getting the distance you need.

Most heavy weight BBs are now hydrophilic and will adsorb water over time, so keep that in mind. Once you open the bag you're advised to use them within 3 months and keep the bag (and its silica gel packet) sealed up whenever possible. ASG have also released their own heavy weight BBs that don't appear to be hydrophilic so I may pick some up. Not sure if anyone on here has had a chance to test them yet, but other ASG BBs are quite good.

Gunfire Rocket, BB king and Nuprol are all the same thing all from the same place! Avoid! Proballs are from a completely different manufacturer! (I just binned 6000 Rockets and 2000 Nuprols).

 

[proffrink]

I tried contacting some when I brought this up in another thread and they wouldn't tell me. A lot of them peddle their BBs on Alibaba, which is where I saw them during my quest to find .3g tracer BBs (turned out Nuprol bought them). So yeh, BB King and Nuprol are the same. Not sure about Gunfire Rockets, but it'd make sense: http://www.cccme.org.cn/shop/cgseals/index.aspx

 

[Samurai]

Not sure about Gunfire Rockets, but it'd make sense: http://www.cccme.org.cn/shop/cgseals/index.aspx

Yes. Same sh!t.

 

[proffrink]

Explains the whole shift towards hygroscopic compounds then. I'll be grabbing some ASG .40g, but it's a shame they don't do more weights.

 

[Samurai]

I am going to shoot 0.43 Proball this weekend. It shoots nice on the 47m range I have in the garden.

I have ordered Monkey Balls 0.40, 0.43, 0.45 samples to test. I'll share the results.

 

[proffrink]

Please do. I'm sick of being tied to the whole '3 month usage time' gaff. Maybe it's just poor design or maybe it's clever planned redundancy, but either way seems dumb for sniper weights where you could get a jam quite easily for people running tight bores. At the very least even the smallest change means inconsistent hop.

 

[Snakeeyes75]

Please do. I'm sick of being tied to the whole '3 month usage time' gaff. Maybe it's just poor design or maybe it's clever planned redundancy, but either way seems dumb for sniper weights where you could get a jam quite easily for people running tight bores. At the very least even the smallest change means inconsistent hop.

TBH, The 3 month thing is a bit of an afterthought. I've been using proballs for the last 4 months now with zero issues! When people started groaning about the Nuprol and GF Rockets "Swelling" then proballs decided to instigate putting silica gel packs into their BB's aswell as vac packing them (Which also helps in transit too).

 

[proffrink]

Oh yeh but didn't we just say Proballs are from another manufacturer? I meant the ones produced by BB King as those seem to swell quickly.

I actually ordered some Proballs just now to tide me over as my BB Kings have already swollen a little.

 

[Snakeeyes75]

Oh yeh but didn't we just say Proballs are from another manufacturer? I meant the ones produced by BB King as those seem to swell quickly.

I actually ordered some Proballs just now to tide me over as my BB Kings have already swollen a little.

They are but I believe they still contain ceramic powder. I've had a pack of 2000 open for a good few months and no change. What I'm saying is that I think proballs have taken measures to help sell the product, plus they seem to only pack in 1000 rather than 2000, I just buy 2 at a time (Just incase).

 

[proffrink]

I honestly don't know why manufacturers struggle with heavier BB weights . It's not quite the volume purchase one might make with .2s or .3s. I'm happy to spend more to get a better quality product if I'm only shooting 200 for a game. It just seems like they're chasing margins too much on some of this stuff.

BB Bastard need to get in on sniping weights

 

[Samurai]

I honestly don't know why manufacturers struggle with heavier BB weights .

People shoot a bottle of 0.25 a day. Snipers shoot about 20-100 0.43 a day. We should be glad they even bother with heavy BBs.

 

[proffrink]

That's exactly my point though: Why not make lower volume but decent runs of sniper weights. Inconsistency doesn't matter much with .25s, but it does with .30s and above, so why skimp on the manufacturing instead of just charging more? I'm sure you - and most others who run BASRs would be more than happy to pay for a good quality product. It just seems completely moot to make affordable sniping weights these days when - as you say - most people aren't getting through a bag in two months anyway.

BB Bastard manage it - they're a good deal more pricey than regular BBs but in my old DMR I'd not run much else because they're incredibly consistent and hard wearing.

I really hope some of the ones you test come out well.